[OSM-talk-ie] Talk-ie Digest, Vol 124, Issue 8

[Donal Hunt]

Be careful with boundaries. Many of them are defined by what is on record
in the OSI and changes to the landscape (roads, rivers, etc) don't impact
the line of the boundary.

What should happen is that the official definition of the boundary gets
updated but that appears to be a non-trivial task.

For OpenStreetMap-ers, if it's obvious that the boundary is actually along
the center line of a road or a tree line and there have been no changes,
making corrections makes sense though.

Tread carefully…

Donal

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, 14:28 Noel Ballantyne, <noelballantyne at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >
> > There are many things yet to map. and there are many many corrections
> > to be made to the map.
> >
>
> to be mapped
> individual trees on streets, large areas of forestry across the west.
>
> to be corrected
> there are many townland boundaries that do not follow a feature on the
> ground. they are close to a feature but not on it. rivers flowing in the
> wrong direction. Some roads in Donegal are badly drawn
>
> Look at the difference with my corrected stream and the original
> stream(which i reclassed as river for illustrative purposes - I will delete
> in a few days)
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/55.25762/-7.10106
>
> i mapped a lot of buildings without changing the tags to house, shed, farm
> etc.
>
> there is a lot to do.
>
> Noel
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 23:26:00 +0000
> > From: Colm Moore <colmmoore72 at hotmail.com>
> > To: "talk-ie at openstreetmap.org" <talk-ie at openstreetmap.org>
> > Subject: [OSM-talk-ie] What are your 'must map' features?
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> > Hi,
> >
> > So, for whatever reason, some of us are interested in specific localities
> > or projects, e.g. minutely mapping a whole village or neighbourhood, all
> > the roads in a county or perhaps something more specific, e.g. mapping
> all
> > shops in a chain or technical, e.g. I do a fair bit of debugging of
> > disconnected roads.
> >
> > There are some features that I feel I 'must' map, e.g. if something has a
> > reference number (road, bus stop, rubbish bin (Dublin City Council has
> > them)), I want to map it. I *really* like mapping / filling in details on
> > electrical transformers (I'm the most recent editor of 2,274 of 2,285
> > transformers mapped in Ireland). I can smell them at 50 metres! :) Or
> > rather, I've mapped so many I can tell in a neighbourhood where I am
> likely
> > to find one.
> >
> > I also run scripts through Over-Pass Turbo a few times a month, searching
> > for police stations, post office infrastructure and power facilities that
> > need their tagging improved. I also map pipelines & storage  tanks. I've
> > mapped lots of railway, but there are relatively few feature left to map.
> >
> > Most of the time, mapping driveways an houses bores me.
> >
> > Colm
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
> > change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret
> Mead
> >
> >
> >
> >
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